Progress in Hardy Double Thornless Roses 
Dr. Hensen's experience with many thousands of rose seedlings shows it to be 
fairly easy to get the thorns off of the wood, but very difficult to got the bristles 
from the rachis or midrib of the leaf. Evidently these sre two quite different prob¬ 
lems. 
The three Pax Roses are only a beginning. Pax is the Latin for peace. Thorns 
are not necessary in Roses. These Pax Roses are nearly thornless. Eventually Pax 
may be declared in the Rose gardens of the world I 
In the spring of 1938 plants of four new roses were sent out for the first 
time: Lillian Gibson, and tiiree smooth-wooded varieties: Pax Amanda, Pax Apollo, 
Pax lola. They were all root-sprouts from the original plants. No sprouts are 
available for this spring, 1959, but they were budded on hordy stocks last August and 
those should be ready for spring 1940. 
The following descriptions are from last year's spring list: 
Lillian Gibson Rose - Pedigree: Wild rose, Rosa bisnda, from Wilton, northern 
Minnesota x Red Star (a red Hybrid Tea) pollen. Offered for the first time. This 
rose was the sensation at the Sioux Falls Flov/er Show, Jun., 19?7. The flowers cre Ir.rre 
double, over 40 petals, a beautiful lively rose pink, about tliree inches across v^ritA 
delightful rich fragrance. A very abundant bloomer in late June, Plant of strong 
upright sturdy growth. The plant is sparsely thorny on young shoots, with scattered 
thorns on the old shoots. 
Pax Amanda Rose - Pedigree: Frau Georg Von Sirason (a multiflora climber from 
Europe) x pollen of Rosa blanda, wild rose from Wilton, Minnesota. A gorgeous bloomer, 
light pink turning to white, semi-double in clusters. Petals about 17. A strong up¬ 
right grower, with dark brovra. 7-foot stems. The stems are smooth except a very few 
thorns near the groundj the midrib of the leaf is bristly. 
Pax Apollo Rose - Pedigree: Rosa sempsrvirens pallida x pollen of Rosa blanda 
wild rose from southern Manitoba. A wonderful producer of deep pink flowers in large 
clusters in June. Petals about 14. Tall, upright, 7-foot dark red stems. The 
wood is smoothj on strong shoots the midrib of the leaf is bristly. 
Pax lola Rose - Pedigree: Anci Bohra (a climbing rose from Europe) x pillen of 
Rosa blanda , wild rose from Bemidji, north. Minnesota. Flowers a semi-double clear 
shell pink. A strong grower, evidently of the pillar type. The shoots close tj> the 
ground also full .^f bloom. Hundreds of flov/ers inches across in large clusters. 
Petals about 26. The older flowers are nearly white; these two colors make the bush 
a thing of beauty. The stems of strong growth are all smooth; the rachis or midrib 
of the leaf is bristly, but a pleasing tlriornless bouquet can be cut from the side 
shoots. 
Hardy Roses Already Introduced 
All on their ovm roots, so tliat all the sprouts will be true to name. These 
are Hansen's earlier introductions. For descriptions and pedigree, see S. D. Bullet¬ 
in No. 240. Price per plant: $1.00. 
Yatkan . 2 plants 
Kitana .15 plants 
Okaga.6 plants 
Alika: A Hardy Red Rose - First offered spring, 1950. Color brilliant red 
with no purple, mauve or violet red in it. It gets far away from the mauve pink of 
most of our wild prairie roses. Propagates rapidly from sprouts. Dr. Hansen brc\aght 
this liardy, beautiful, double, fragrant, brilliant red rose from Russia in 1906, 
under the na.me Rosa gcllica granidiflora . The Alika roses made a gorgeous display in 
the State Rose Garden at Sioux Falls the past season. Alika roses on own roots, 
each $1.00. Sprouts from these plants will be true to name. 
Mrs. Mina Lindell Rose - Introduced 1927. A beautiful, serai-double light pink 
wild rose found in Butte County, South Dakota. Plants on own r.^ots, each 50 cents. 
Pink Semi Rose - A pink single flower selection of the semi rose from Semipal- 
atinsk, Siberia ( Rosa laxa . Retz). It was a pleasure to note at the Federal H.)rt- 
iculture Station at Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1957, that the Pink Semi rose is very 
resistant or immune to alkali. This variety should be good f ;r hedges on such soil. 
Own-rooted plants, each 50 cents. 
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